Pigeon Weather Productions: Fiction Even Stranger Than Truth
Friday, October 31, 2008
Thursday, October 30, 2008
Purple Death Cowboy
Purple Death Cowboy sings his original tune: "Dontcha Google Me, Baby"
Well, I ain't afraid to call a thing by its name
and I never wanted to be the same
as everybody else playing in the game
but hey, oh ... I got no one to blame
And I never really wanted to do that stuff
and I thought a little would be enough
and I didn't think that it would get that rough
but hey, oh ... I guess that's tough, so-o-o
Dontcha google me, baby
you might not like what you see
'cause I might've been a bad boy, baby
and you're better off with mystery
Now you might be saying that you don't care
and you might be thinking that it just ain't fair
that I got a secret that I won't share
but hey, oh ... don't go there
'Cause I never really wanted to be with that bunch
and now I know a little is a little too much
and even if I looked and I didn't touch
but hey, oh ... did I say too much? Oh-o-o
Dontcha google me, baby
you might not like what you see
'cause I might've been a bad boy, baby
and you're better off with mystery
yeah, you're better off with mystery
the wire
it's five days before the 2008 election and so here are all the important remaining questions:
what did "Joe the Fucking Moron" say today? (Obama is 'a man of mystery' - yeah, especially if you don't ever read or think at all)
which poll is right, the one where Obama is up by 4 in Pennsylvania, or the one where he is up by 14?
do you really think that if Colin Powell had met with Sarah Palin he would've come away super impressed? (um, not so much)
how does John McCain manage to call Obama a Socialist all day and then go on Larry King at night and say he doesn't really think Obama is a Socialist? (some dare call it hypocrisy)
how did Obama's 30 minute Lifetime Network Chick Flick go over? Did it really map out pretty much to a dream fiance's marriage proposal?
can it just be next Tuesday already?
what did "Joe the Fucking Moron" say today? (Obama is 'a man of mystery' - yeah, especially if you don't ever read or think at all)
which poll is right, the one where Obama is up by 4 in Pennsylvania, or the one where he is up by 14?
do you really think that if Colin Powell had met with Sarah Palin he would've come away super impressed? (um, not so much)
how does John McCain manage to call Obama a Socialist all day and then go on Larry King at night and say he doesn't really think Obama is a Socialist? (some dare call it hypocrisy)
how did Obama's 30 minute Lifetime Network Chick Flick go over? Did it really map out pretty much to a dream fiance's marriage proposal?
can it just be next Tuesday already?
Wednesday, October 29, 2008
1 2 Many B's
Heard of an Elizabeth Dole commercial (for Senate re-election) where she accuses her Democratic rival, Kay Hagen, of being (gosh no) an ATHEIST! ("She hid from cameras, took godless money"!!)
Still so far to go ...
And then Kay Hagen went and sued Dole for "defamation" - as if! Now, why'd she hav gto go and offend good, decent, hard-working godless Americans like that?
Still so far to go ...
And then Kay Hagen went and sued Dole for "defamation" - as if! Now, why'd she hav gto go and offend good, decent, hard-working godless Americans like that?
Monday, October 27, 2008
Commie Pinko Baby-Killer Terrorist or Not So Much?
Today's fake controversy was about an interview Obama did on NPR in 2001, in which he says that the civil rights movement became too court-oriented and not enough community-organizing-oriented - at least that's what his words said. The right wing tools pounced on the word 'redistributive' as evidence that Obama intends to take control of the world and put everyone in a Gulag. My analogy:
Obama asserts that cats are not green
Limbaugh and Hannity shriek that Obama will force all cats to become green or else he'll chop their heads off, including your own dear little kitty-tums.
pathetic
Obama asserts that cats are not green
Limbaugh and Hannity shriek that Obama will force all cats to become green or else he'll chop their heads off, including your own dear little kitty-tums.
pathetic
Sunday, October 26, 2008
nice quote i saw today - McCain may be Seabiscuit, but Obama is Secretariat ...
also was informed that blogging is sooo 2004 and the 2008 thing to do is twitter and facebook, which of course, by next year, will be soooo 2008. as it happens, due to my work (cellphone software testing) i have to plug into all of these things, and i find them all interesting and useful in their own way. i suppose it depends on what your goal is. if you want to be the Most Important Person With Ideas Everyone Will Listen To, well, good luck in general.
Facebook kind of blands-out the concept of friendship (there's proably a better way to put it)
Twitter is like public instant-messaging, which you can do with IM groups anyway, or email aliases, for that matter.
Blogging for me has always been like the spiral bound notebook I used to keep, which I called 'So Much Things To Say', and as such, it suits me just fine for that purpose.
AS for what is soooo this year or that, who cares?
Re-reading now The Count of Monte Cristo (A. Dumas) but the unabridged version, the one with opium, hashish and lesbianism. Who knew?
"When one associates with madmen, one must train as a maniac"
also was informed that blogging is sooo 2004 and the 2008 thing to do is twitter and facebook, which of course, by next year, will be soooo 2008. as it happens, due to my work (cellphone software testing) i have to plug into all of these things, and i find them all interesting and useful in their own way. i suppose it depends on what your goal is. if you want to be the Most Important Person With Ideas Everyone Will Listen To, well, good luck in general.
Facebook kind of blands-out the concept of friendship (there's proably a better way to put it)
Twitter is like public instant-messaging, which you can do with IM groups anyway, or email aliases, for that matter.
Blogging for me has always been like the spiral bound notebook I used to keep, which I called 'So Much Things To Say', and as such, it suits me just fine for that purpose.
AS for what is soooo this year or that, who cares?
Re-reading now The Count of Monte Cristo (A. Dumas) but the unabridged version, the one with opium, hashish and lesbianism. Who knew?
"When one associates with madmen, one must train as a maniac"
Friday, October 24, 2008
Notes During Earthquake Weather
There's something to be said about characters ultimately being undone by their greatest strengths - we do see this all the time in real life. McCain the gambler who gambles and loses. for example. Often the quality is a good one - loyalty, for example, or bravery - that can cost someone their career or even their life. Sometimes it's a small and meager quality, like a sense of duty, that can manifest in triviality and misplacement. I was thinking of this in the most recent version of my doomed screenplay, where the hero turns back, at the last second, to let the dog out of the locked house - the very dog who got him into that bad mess in the first place, a dog to whom he owed nothing, really - just because he and the dog had been through a lot together and he was a person with a misplaced sense of responsibility. He was already punished for this once - by linking himself needlessly with his mental sister - but he never learns. For Myron/Golden, once he has decided to ally himself with someone or something, he sticks to it, no matter what.
A colleague of mine does a similar thing with his attitude. He locks it in, and never changes it, regardless of the circumstances. We can convince ourselves of a reality that does not exist, that could be altered easily by a shift in our perception of it, but that would be too undermining of our self-image. He has decided to by a pessimist about his situation, and there is nothing that can alter it.
You can see yourself as a leader, but then one day you find your leadership position taken from you, quite unexpectedly and immediately, and suddenly you are not that anymore. I remember a transition I once made from store manager to stock clerk. I walked around in a daze for awhile, until I understood that nothing was my responsibility anymore. Eventually, it was liberating. This time around, as my role goes from significant contributor in a small company to minor cog in a giant machine, I need to draw on that experience.
I ran into a red faced man who does not know when to stop talking. He told one embarrassing story after another about his painful youth, while most of the people at the table were strangers and not interested. The lunch went on and on and I was only looking forward to the chance of getting back outside and forgetting everything I'd heard.
A colleague of mine does a similar thing with his attitude. He locks it in, and never changes it, regardless of the circumstances. We can convince ourselves of a reality that does not exist, that could be altered easily by a shift in our perception of it, but that would be too undermining of our self-image. He has decided to by a pessimist about his situation, and there is nothing that can alter it.
You can see yourself as a leader, but then one day you find your leadership position taken from you, quite unexpectedly and immediately, and suddenly you are not that anymore. I remember a transition I once made from store manager to stock clerk. I walked around in a daze for awhile, until I understood that nothing was my responsibility anymore. Eventually, it was liberating. This time around, as my role goes from significant contributor in a small company to minor cog in a giant machine, I need to draw on that experience.
I ran into a red faced man who does not know when to stop talking. He told one embarrassing story after another about his painful youth, while most of the people at the table were strangers and not interested. The lunch went on and on and I was only looking forward to the chance of getting back outside and forgetting everything I'd heard.
Thursday, October 23, 2008
Great Man Theory of Software Development
No matter how much they try to gussy it up or paper it over, or make a cult out of different 'software development processes' it still comes down to one or two geniuses acting like dragons, lashing their tails all over the place while the rest of the company hangs on for the ride. You'd damn well better be 'agile' if you want to make it through
Wednesday, October 22, 2008
Morale Event
You know you're in the big leagues when your company schedules you for an "all day morale event" - who else but i giant corporation could afford to waste so many people's time?
(I hate to even think about what's involved in this thing)
(I hate to even think about what's involved in this thing)
Advertising
In England they're advertising atheism on mass transit. It would be kind of pointless to do the same in America. Bumper stickers probably get more attention than buses.
facts and figures
The sweet little revelation of "Mrs. Joe Six-Pack"'s $150,000 wardrobe and make-up (last month alone! not even counting this month so far), added to her expensing of her kids' travel (to the tune of $21,00 last year) and her own home cooking ($36,000 since becoming governor, charging Alaskan taxpayers for going home at night!), not to mention the other twenty thousand or so in "gifts" received, paint a pretty picture of one of your more corrupt politicians.
Who needs Socialism when you've got your own private welfare State?
Who needs Socialism when you've got your own private welfare State?
degrees
Not only is Facebook moving in to new offices around the corner from mine, but they're closing in on me by degrees of separation as well. I had referenced Missy Tonight' on my Facebook page, a friend commented on it, and the one and only Penn Jillette commented on her comment on her page! Gosh, it sure is a small world after all!
(another commenter asked if I was a "fully credentialed" atheist! hey, that might be another way to cash in - start an atheist accreditation program. I can see the syllabus now:
How to Start Living and Stop Pestering Jesus
How to Be Born, Exist, and Die
A Practical Guide to Imaginary Friendship
feel free to add your own ...
(another commenter asked if I was a "fully credentialed" atheist! hey, that might be another way to cash in - start an atheist accreditation program. I can see the syllabus now:
How to Start Living and Stop Pestering Jesus
How to Be Born, Exist, and Die
A Practical Guide to Imaginary Friendship
feel free to add your own ...
Tuesday, October 21, 2008
Now Appearing
one of my favorite things about writing a book is making the cover art. this one was simply a matter of stealing a nice photo of redwoods off of some "foto site" and using an online "marquee" generator for the title (it isn't so blurry in person)
Monday, October 20, 2008
here kitty kitty
the man who named his son 'Pioneer' was out looking for his cat this morning, calling out gently, 'Robert, Robert' ...
Saturday, October 18, 2008
This Week in Double Standards
When Obama raises taxes on the rich to give tax credits to the middle class, it's "Socialism". When McCain taxes health insurance benefits in order to provide tax credits for individuals, it's not.
When Sarah Palin says that God blessed America with oil and natural gas, nobody asks her why He blessed Saudi Arabia, Iran and Russia with so much more of the stuff.
When Obama worked with a guy who was a student radical in the 60's, he's anti-American. When Palin is MARRIED to someone who belonged to a treasonous, secessionist party, she's not.
Just sayin' ...
When Sarah Palin says that God blessed America with oil and natural gas, nobody asks her why He blessed Saudi Arabia, Iran and Russia with so much more of the stuff.
When Obama worked with a guy who was a student radical in the 60's, he's anti-American. When Palin is MARRIED to someone who belonged to a treasonous, secessionist party, she's not.
Just sayin' ...
Friday, October 17, 2008
Blurb
Missy Tonight
These days it seems like everyone is cashing in on the New Atheism craze, except for lifelong unbeliever Alan Musted. What’s a portable toilet dispatcher to do? Crash the party, that’s what! Join Alan and his friends and enemies in this ground-breaking work of atheist pulp fiction, the spellbinding sequel to Orange Car with Stripes.
(first draft now completed and under review ...)
These days it seems like everyone is cashing in on the New Atheism craze, except for lifelong unbeliever Alan Musted. What’s a portable toilet dispatcher to do? Crash the party, that’s what! Join Alan and his friends and enemies in this ground-breaking work of atheist pulp fiction, the spellbinding sequel to Orange Car with Stripes.
(first draft now completed and under review ...)
Thursday, October 16, 2008
at least 100 stars in the universe for every grain of sand on earth
Found this interesting post online:
"So how many grains of sand are there in the world? You could start
off by trying to guess how many grains of sand there are in a spoon of
sand. Use a magnifying glass to count how many grains fit in a small
section. Then, count how many of those sections fit in your spoon.
Multiply the two numbers together to get an estimate.
"Using this same principle, plus some additional information,
mathematicians at the University of Hawaii tried to guess how many
grains of sand are on the world's beaches. They came up with
7,500,000,000,000,000,000, or seven quintillion five quadrillion
grains of sand."
How many grains of sand are in the world?
http://www.miamisci.org/tripod/whysand.html
The calculation is detailed here:
http://www.hawaii.edu/suremath/jsand.html
That number is 7.5 x 10^18 or 7.5 billion billion.
How many stars, galaxies, clusters, QSO's etc. in the Universe?
http://www.faqs.org/faqs/astronomy/faq/part8/section-3.html
"To get the total stellar population in the Milky Way [that is, in our
galaxy alone], we must take the number of luminous stars that we can
see at large distances and assume that we know how many fainter stars
go along with them. Recent numbers give about 400,000,000,000 (400
billion) stars, but a 50% error either way is quite plausible."
So in our galaxy alone, there might be between 2 x 10^11 and 6 x 10^11 stars
How many galaxies in the Universe?
http://www.faqs.org/faqs/astronomy/faq/part8/section-4.html
"the Hubble telescope is capable of detecting about 80 billion
galaxies (although not all of these within the foreseeable future!).
In fact, there must be many more than this, even within the observable
Universe, since the most
common kind of galaxy in our own neighborhood is the faint dwarfs
which are difficult enough to see nearby, much less at large
cosmological distances. For example, in our own local group, there are
3 or 4 giant galaxies which would be detectable at a billion
light-years or more (Andromeda, the Milky Way, the Pinwheel in
Triangulum, and maybe the Large Magellanic Cloud). However, there are
at least another 20 faint members, which would be difficult to find at
100 million light-years, much less the billions of light years to
which the brightest galaxies can be seen."
So the lower end estimate for the number of galaxies is 8 x 10^10
If we accept even the lower end of these Hubble figures, and if our
Milky Way has a typical number of stars in it, that puts the number of
stars in the universe to be at least
(2 x 10^11) x (8 x 10^10) = 16 x 10^ 21
So if we round the number of sand grains to, say, 10^20
and round the number of stars to, say 10^22
then there are at least 100 stars in the universe for every grain of sand on earth.
As you say, that's a *LOT*
"So how many grains of sand are there in the world? You could start
off by trying to guess how many grains of sand there are in a spoon of
sand. Use a magnifying glass to count how many grains fit in a small
section. Then, count how many of those sections fit in your spoon.
Multiply the two numbers together to get an estimate.
"Using this same principle, plus some additional information,
mathematicians at the University of Hawaii tried to guess how many
grains of sand are on the world's beaches. They came up with
7,500,000,000,000,000,000, or seven quintillion five quadrillion
grains of sand."
How many grains of sand are in the world?
http://www.miamisci.org/tripod/whysand.html
The calculation is detailed here:
http://www.hawaii.edu/suremath/jsand.html
That number is 7.5 x 10^18 or 7.5 billion billion.
How many stars, galaxies, clusters, QSO's etc. in the Universe?
http://www.faqs.org/faqs/astronomy/faq/part8/section-3.html
"To get the total stellar population in the Milky Way [that is, in our
galaxy alone], we must take the number of luminous stars that we can
see at large distances and assume that we know how many fainter stars
go along with them. Recent numbers give about 400,000,000,000 (400
billion) stars, but a 50% error either way is quite plausible."
So in our galaxy alone, there might be between 2 x 10^11 and 6 x 10^11 stars
How many galaxies in the Universe?
http://www.faqs.org/faqs/astronomy/faq/part8/section-4.html
"the Hubble telescope is capable of detecting about 80 billion
galaxies (although not all of these within the foreseeable future!).
In fact, there must be many more than this, even within the observable
Universe, since the most
common kind of galaxy in our own neighborhood is the faint dwarfs
which are difficult enough to see nearby, much less at large
cosmological distances. For example, in our own local group, there are
3 or 4 giant galaxies which would be detectable at a billion
light-years or more (Andromeda, the Milky Way, the Pinwheel in
Triangulum, and maybe the Large Magellanic Cloud). However, there are
at least another 20 faint members, which would be difficult to find at
100 million light-years, much less the billions of light years to
which the brightest galaxies can be seen."
So the lower end estimate for the number of galaxies is 8 x 10^10
If we accept even the lower end of these Hubble figures, and if our
Milky Way has a typical number of stars in it, that puts the number of
stars in the universe to be at least
(2 x 10^11) x (8 x 10^10) = 16 x 10^ 21
So if we round the number of sand grains to, say, 10^20
and round the number of stars to, say 10^22
then there are at least 100 stars in the universe for every grain of sand on earth.
As you say, that's a *LOT*
Oops of the Day
US Republican presidential nominee Senator John McCain (R-AZ) reacts to almost heading the wrong way off the stage after shaking hands with Democratic presidential nominee Senator Barack Obama (D-IL) at the conclusion of the final presidential debate at Hofstra University in Hempstead, New York, October 15, 2008. By Jim Bourg/Reuters.
Wednesday, October 15, 2008
Lots More Money
So, let me get this straight.
The banks made a lot of bad loans and lost a lot of money, so we need to just give them lots more money. okey ...
the "middle class" is jacking up their credit card debt, buying houses they can't afford, not to mention big-screen tv's etc ..., therefore, we need to give them lots more money. okey ...
two-thirds of the U.S. GDP is consumer purchasing, and we're in a recession because people are spending less, and they're spending less because they're in debt already, so, the thing to do is give people lots more money and send them out shopping. okey ...
In other words, the solution to the problem is more of the problem, and we need to make the problem worse in order to kick the can down the road and solve it with the same "solution" (only bigger) some other day in the future.
Now I get it.
In other words, a penny spent is a penny earned.
The banks made a lot of bad loans and lost a lot of money, so we need to just give them lots more money. okey ...
the "middle class" is jacking up their credit card debt, buying houses they can't afford, not to mention big-screen tv's etc ..., therefore, we need to give them lots more money. okey ...
two-thirds of the U.S. GDP is consumer purchasing, and we're in a recession because people are spending less, and they're spending less because they're in debt already, so, the thing to do is give people lots more money and send them out shopping. okey ...
In other words, the solution to the problem is more of the problem, and we need to make the problem worse in order to kick the can down the road and solve it with the same "solution" (only bigger) some other day in the future.
Now I get it.
In other words, a penny spent is a penny earned.
Monday, October 13, 2008
Quote of the Day Before
From 'The Big Lebowski'
I don't give a fuck about the fucking marmot
my sentiments exactly this day at work as I was unexpectedly introduced to the guy who now has my job
I don't give a fuck about the fucking marmot
my sentiments exactly this day at work as I was unexpectedly introduced to the guy who now has my job
Quote of the Day
from a second-grader, on a magic trick gone wrong:
He set his self on fire but he couldn't get his self back off
He set his self on fire but he couldn't get his self back off
Friday, October 10, 2008
The Present as Past
We just finished watching 'Are You Smarter than a Fifth Grader', where Ken Jennings of Jeopardy fame became with winningest game show contestant of all time. My wife was curious about his profession, so I looked him up on Wikipedia and found this:
On October 10, 2008 he became the all time top game show earner on the show Are You Smarter Than a 5th Grader
Ok. but today is October 10, 2008 and this just happened moments ago. It is already recorded as the past in Wikipedia
Unless, of course, the show was taped and they already knew what happened and when the show was going to air.
Either way, come on! Today is Yesterday already and it's not even over yet
On October 10, 2008 he became the all time top game show earner on the show Are You Smarter Than a 5th Grader
Ok. but today is October 10, 2008 and this just happened moments ago. It is already recorded as the past in Wikipedia
Unless, of course, the show was taped and they already knew what happened and when the show was going to air.
Either way, come on! Today is Yesterday already and it's not even over yet
Small Potatoes
This blog is seriously small-time, and that's just fine with me. I do find it interesting, however, how the few strangers who wander here happen to find it. Mostly it's through searches, occasionally through links from other bloggers who happen to be the people whoses blogs i enjoy the most. I've been trying out 'google analytics' to track the trickle of traffic, and discovered the most popular paths to here are for a few of my favorite blog posts - the one where i invented an entirely fictitious back story to explain a Curve album, the one where i wrote an essay on a great history book called Captains of Consciousness, the one where I make fun of google for jumping on the advertising possibilites of Barack Obama being the AntiChrist, and the one where talk about what to do with your soul mate once you find them.
i recently thought of promoting my Atheist Fiction through some random atheist blogs, of which there are more and more. We're still a relatively tiny subset, it seems. Well, there are more atheists than ever, but hardly anyone at all in the entire world, it seems, has any interest or awareness in atheist fiction, not even atheist pulp fiction, or atheist science fiction, or atheist comedy cult classics.
Ah well. Ahead of my time I suppose.
Meanwhile, I'm having a fun time with my latest - Missy Tonight. I'm grateful at least that my trivial entertainments are amusing to myself if nobody else in atheistdom.
i recently thought of promoting my Atheist Fiction through some random atheist blogs, of which there are more and more. We're still a relatively tiny subset, it seems. Well, there are more atheists than ever, but hardly anyone at all in the entire world, it seems, has any interest or awareness in atheist fiction, not even atheist pulp fiction, or atheist science fiction, or atheist comedy cult classics.
Ah well. Ahead of my time I suppose.
Meanwhile, I'm having a fun time with my latest - Missy Tonight. I'm grateful at least that my trivial entertainments are amusing to myself if nobody else in atheistdom.
Tuesday, October 07, 2008
planet of the apes part six
debate wrap - the cowardly McCain couldn't throw a single punch. He sends the woman out to do the dirty work instead. Not to mention the refusal to shake Obama's hand at the end, or even call Obama by name, referring to him instead as "that one".
what a creep
amazing that you can already buy 'that one' stuff - within an hour of the debate!
Extraordinary Popular Delusions
One of my all-time favorite books, 'Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds', is full of stories of boom-and-bust economic bubbles (the South Seas Bubble, the Tulip bubble) and public manias (witch-hunting, astrology) so it's never surprising to be in the midst of one or more of these episodes - at the moment we seem to be in several of them simultaneously. The housing bubble in the U.S. is occurring within a "super-bubble", which you might call the American bubble - the whole myth of the U.S. economy and superpower status over the past sixty years (coinciding with a Kondratieff cycle as well). The U.S. is now analogous to an over-priced house in a fairly crappy neighborhood. It's a buyer's market and the buyers are not American.
In the meantime we have a 'terrorist mania' going on, even to the point where Republicans are now calling Obama himself a terrorist and seem to be whipping up a literal lynch mob mentality. I would not be surprised to be seeing political violence very shortly. The U.S. is hardly immune to the same behaviors we've seen repeatedly throughout history, including right here.
The boom-and-bust cycles, putting to bed the various "rational" economic theories of the unfettered free market, reinforce the notions of feedback loops (cybernetics), self re-inforcing behaviors, which is what correlates the madness of crowds with these various kinds of manias, and I wonder if it isn't in our DNA, built in to the fact that we are creatures of this particular planet, with its seasons, its rotations and revolutions, its nights and days, its lunar orbits, its tides, and its magnetic poles.
The presidential election looms like a full moon, drawing out all the zombies and the vampires and the creatures of the night, the racists, the bigots, the jingoistic patri-nots, as well as filling up the dreamers with their hopes and fantasies of a better world and people. It's an emotional time, and the emotional swings coinciding with global financial realignment make for an especially unnerving autumn in America.
In the meantime we have a 'terrorist mania' going on, even to the point where Republicans are now calling Obama himself a terrorist and seem to be whipping up a literal lynch mob mentality. I would not be surprised to be seeing political violence very shortly. The U.S. is hardly immune to the same behaviors we've seen repeatedly throughout history, including right here.
The boom-and-bust cycles, putting to bed the various "rational" economic theories of the unfettered free market, reinforce the notions of feedback loops (cybernetics), self re-inforcing behaviors, which is what correlates the madness of crowds with these various kinds of manias, and I wonder if it isn't in our DNA, built in to the fact that we are creatures of this particular planet, with its seasons, its rotations and revolutions, its nights and days, its lunar orbits, its tides, and its magnetic poles.
The presidential election looms like a full moon, drawing out all the zombies and the vampires and the creatures of the night, the racists, the bigots, the jingoistic patri-nots, as well as filling up the dreamers with their hopes and fantasies of a better world and people. It's an emotional time, and the emotional swings coinciding with global financial realignment make for an especially unnerving autumn in America.
Monday, October 06, 2008
changing the subject
My friend is the ultimate considerate pedestrian. He hurries to cross the street when a driver inches to the intersection he's crossing. He waves cars along if they get there first. He'll leap off the curb to allow an oncoming pedestrian to hog the sidewalk. He'll pause behind a tree or a mailbox to let a catching-up group pass by. He's even been known to readjust the sprinklers on the sidewalk that are not quite on target for their shrubs. You cannot hurry when you walk with him. His motto is "the other guy is always right".
Sunday, October 05, 2008
Election Trains
Cute, but after today's "pals around with terrorists" crap from that woman's foul mouth, I've come to agree with my initial impression of her - I think it's going to become more and more apparent that the woman is not only dangerously ignorant, but dangerous, period, malevolent and corrupt. Imagine George W. Bush and Richard Nixon combined in a confederate mudflap manakin. She's a small-time crook with dreams of a big-time score, and married to a bonafide traitor to boot. She could well become America's Nero at some not-so-future date, for make no mistake, this Empire is sooo over.
Friday, October 03, 2008
Winky
Someone please tell Sarah Palin to stop winking at us! WTF?
I agreed with this, from a comment on Roger Ebert's interesting take:
I don't know about you but I actually find Sarah's "folksiness" rather annoying. She seems to be unable to finish a sentence without that false cheeriness and "perkiness". It makes her sound like a kindergarten teacher, not the candidate for the office of the second most powerful person in the country.
And as DJ Black Adam reminds us, "Joe Six-Pack" is just the latest catchphrase meaning "White Like You"
And she out and out lied about Alaska divesting from Sudan. In reality, she opposed it, and the legislation failed.
I agreed with this, from a comment on Roger Ebert's interesting take:
I don't know about you but I actually find Sarah's "folksiness" rather annoying. She seems to be unable to finish a sentence without that false cheeriness and "perkiness". It makes her sound like a kindergarten teacher, not the candidate for the office of the second most powerful person in the country.
And as DJ Black Adam reminds us, "Joe Six-Pack" is just the latest catchphrase meaning "White Like You"
And she out and out lied about Alaska divesting from Sudan. In reality, she opposed it, and the legislation failed.
Thursday, October 02, 2008
Someone Else
McCain says he'd rather they picked someone else to moderate the VP debate (other than Gwen Ifill)
I say I'd rather he'd picked someone else to be his VP candidate!
I say I'd rather he'd picked someone else to be his VP candidate!
Wednesday, October 01, 2008
Must See TV
Since our new rule about TV and computers went into effect (none on schooldays), the household has been generally happier and livelier. It's all good, but OMG how can we possibly miss the VP debate tomorrow night? We'll have to pack the kid off to a friend's house for a "playdate".
I half expect Gov. Palin to survive the evening, mostly because she could go on, and stay on, the attack, where she's most comfortable. All she really has to do is go to her happy place (shooting defenseless wolves from a plane) and wait for Biden to fuck up, which he probably will.
On the other hand, she's got to be feeling the pressure, after this series of completely ridiculous interviews where she's been unable to offer a coherent answer to any question.
What do you read? Can't really say.
Any Supreme Court decisions you disagree with? Um ... there probably are some ...
What do you think about the bailout? Um, reducing taxes has to be accompanied by tax reductions?
Is she really a Category Five Moron (as Bill Maher put it) or is she deliberately setting the bar absurdly low?
Got to watch. Must see TV.
Nostrathomas is going to go out on a limb here and predict an utter catastrophe.
I half expect Gov. Palin to survive the evening, mostly because she could go on, and stay on, the attack, where she's most comfortable. All she really has to do is go to her happy place (shooting defenseless wolves from a plane) and wait for Biden to fuck up, which he probably will.
On the other hand, she's got to be feeling the pressure, after this series of completely ridiculous interviews where she's been unable to offer a coherent answer to any question.
What do you read? Can't really say.
Any Supreme Court decisions you disagree with? Um ... there probably are some ...
What do you think about the bailout? Um, reducing taxes has to be accompanied by tax reductions?
Is she really a Category Five Moron (as Bill Maher put it) or is she deliberately setting the bar absurdly low?
Got to watch. Must see TV.
Nostrathomas is going to go out on a limb here and predict an utter catastrophe.
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